Fosse: Plays Six Read Online Free PDF

freedom
    permanent relationships
    laughs briefly
    having dogs
    a permanent residence
    regular income
    a permanent job
    quite short pause
    yes children
    THE WOMAN
    Freedom is a good thing too
    quite short pause
    If you are shut in
    quite short pause
    yes then you want to go where you want to go
    there is nothing else you want
    THE MAN
    But there is something else
    THE WOMAN
    No
    THE MAN
    Another person
    other people
    are not a room one is
    shut up in
    THE WOMAN
    Aren’t they
    THE MAN
    No
    THE WOMAN
    Never
    THE MAN
    Never
    Pause
    THE WOMAN
    But
    quite short pause
    now
    yes now I have tried being free
    and now
    yes now I would like to tie myself
    quite short pause
    yes that is what it is called
    to tie oneself
    THE MAN
    Yes
    THE WOMAN
    To you
    To the children
    THE MAN
    So that’s what you want
    THE WOMAN
    Yes
    quite short pause
    yes I regret
    or
    quite short pause
    yes I regret it
    I should not have gone
    it was wrong of me
    I shouldn’t have done it
    THE MAN
    And now you want to go back
    THE WOMAN
    Yes
    Pause
    THE MAN
    But it’s not possible
    THE WOMAN
    Not possible
    THE MAN
    No it’s not possible
    THE WOMAN
    Why not
    THE MAN
    No
    THE WOMAN
    But can you not forgive
    THE MAN
    Yes
    quite short pause
    Yes I have no difficulties
    forgiving
    quite short pause
    it’s just that
    yes to see the other
    like oneself
    and to see that the other
    THE WOMAN
    interrupts
    Yes
    THE MAN
    continues
    yes is like oneself
    yes that the other
    quite short pause
    Yes also has freedom
    As their damned condition
    THE WOMAN
    Damned condition
    THE MAN
    Yes
    THE WOMAN
    What would a person be
    without freedom
    THE MAN
    What would a person be
    without death
    THE WOMAN
    What would a person be
    without loneliness
    THE MAN
    Yes
    Pause
    THE WOMAN
    A person without freedom
    is
    quite short pause
    yes a stone
    a tree
    quite short pause
    no that was badly put
    quite short pause
    but a person
    without freedom
    is not a person
    THE MAN
    Yes
    Pause
    Yes that is the condition of the soul
    quite long pause
    THE WOMAN
    But I miss
    stops
    THE MAN
    You miss
    THE WOMAN
    Yes
    THE MAN
    What do you miss
    THE WOMAN
    You
    THE MAN
    You miss me
    quite short pause
    but it was me
    you couldn’t stand
    that I was close
    quite short pause
    that I was there
    yes like a tie
    quite short pause
    yes like a constraint
    quite short pause
    as if I was a room
    that shut you in
    THE WOMAN
    No
    quite short pause
    no it wasn’t like that
    THE MAN
    You wanted to travel
    meet others
    get close to others
    quite short pause
    that was what you
    called freedom
    THE WOMAN
    Yes
    yes maybe
    THE MAN
    But if you got too close
    quite short pause
    yes what then
    THE WOMAN
    Did I come too close to you
    THE MAN
    How could I know
    THE WOMAN
    And the journey
    THE MAN
    continues
    became the journey’s constraint
    the journey’s tie
    to travel
    is the greatest constraint
    of all
    THE WOMAN
    Yes
    Pause
    But
    quite short pause
    can’t I come back
    to you
    to the children
    The Man shakes his head
    But why not
    THE MAN
    Because you are free
    THE WOMAN
    But I don’t want to be free
    THE MAN
    But you are free
    THE WOMAN
    Aren’t you
    THE MAN
    No
    Long pause. Footsteps are heard. The Second Woman comes in
    THE MAN
    To the Second Woman
    Yes
    Yes you must say hello to
    Yes my first wife
    The Woman and The Second Woman go over and take each other’s hands .
    I don’t suppose you’ve met each other before
    THE WOMAN
    No
    THE SECOND WOMAN
    No never
    Pause
    THE WOMAN
    To The Second Woman
    Yes I just wanted
    Yes to pop in
    I
    quite short pause
    say hello
    yes
    THE SECOND WOMAN
    Yes
    Pause
    You’re in old parts
    yes
    THE WOMAN
    Yes
    laughs briefly
    yes you might say so
    Pause
    THE SECOND WOMAN
    Yes
    Pause
    THE WOMAN
    to The Man
    Yes it was nice
    talking to you again
    THE MAN
    Yes
    yes it was
    THE WOMAN
    But I suppose I’d better go
    Pause
    THE SECOND WOMAN
    Nice to meet you
    Pause. The Woman goes. Long pause
    What did she want
    THE MAN
    Just to say hello
    THE SECOND WOMAN
    She just came
    THE MAN
    Yes
    quite